[en] The purpose of this paper is to propose a method of analyzing the mercury porosimetry data in the case of materials called hyperporous. This class of material does not undergo intrusion by mercury; instead, it shrinks under the mercury isostatic pressure and its density increases. The phenomenon is partially or completely irreversible. The proposed method enables computing the pore volume distribution as a function of the pore size in the same way as Washburn's method does in the case of mercury intrusion. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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